lurcio

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Still in awe of it all
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Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
All well and good but blockchain doesn’t invalidate the need for ‘good faith’, which is actually due diligence supported by rule of law.
Comment · 6 years ago
Read the Greeks.
Comment · 6 years ago
There’s a more lucrative thriving non-location based market at degree/PhD level too (Harvard, etc)
Comment · 6 years ago
The “Neoliberal agenda” didnt surface in search results for me. Anyone have a link to a copy please, I’d be most grateful.
Comment · 6 years ago
“Who wants a stylus?” Jobs asked then. “Nobody wants a stylus”

The stylus is great in the right app(Procreate/Notion/Notability...) and holds more potential So: 1. Visionaries also have their blindspots 2. Ergo, App developers are a major part of what makes Apple great (FB etc moved away from this) 3. Apples ‘walled garden’ is the only platform with the potential to provide users a wholly unified computing experience, over any Apple device... a cut back version of Weiser’s vision perhaps.

Comment · 7 years ago
My friend, understand the difference between looting and preservation :-)
Comment · 7 years ago
The Guardian is operationally in the UK, but its ownership is sited in an offshore trust.
Comment · 7 years ago
And many of Londons cafes are not much better than toilets (I speak as an ex-pat having recently visited).

I used to live around the corner from the one in Fitzrovia. Never saw the appeal. Chacun a son gout.

Comment · 7 years ago
It's also cheap and trivial to form a UK company with bank account - no matter whether UK citizen/resident or not.
Comment · 7 years ago
Spooky.
Comment · 7 years ago
I'm happily using Mojave on two MBP's - 2009 (4Gb) and 2010 (8Gb) with SSD's. Freedom to upgrade internals and the smarts and generosity of dosdude1 (google that) turned them into the best tech purchases Ive made (after previous years of throwing money at premium end PC's that didn't last)
Comment · 7 years ago
Why not cut inequality at the root: prevent children accruing socio-economic advantages from the moment of birth
Comment · 7 years ago
What is the point of children..?
Comment · 7 years ago
"If you have a library and a garden, you have all you need" Cicero

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